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Ken Taylor's avatar

Never made these connections. I sort of had a pre-conscience awareness of how recording influenced music. I had no idea of Edison’s influence on performance!!

And, I too find the notions of “product” and “content” pernicious!!

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RMS's avatar

You can still hear traces of the old vibrato in recordings of European singers who came out of the live cafe music tradition, like Edith Piaf.

Edison would have lost his mind recording vocal Indian Ragas - I think an octave has 32 notes and the singer can glide between them. His head would've exploded!

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